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A colleague travels from work in Lancashire to home in mid-Wales every week. She runs a company car on a three-year lease. For the first time she has decided to run a 4WD to cope better with the journey...
I have recently started my own company and the time has come to consider company vehicles. I am however getting stuck when it comes to finding something suitable. I am ideally looking for something Passat/...
I am due to retire soon and my company has offered me the opportunity to buy my 34,000 mile 2009 Lexus IS 250 SE company car at book cost, which is around £7200. It seems like a good deal but I understand...
My daughter has recently taken an 09 Focus 1.6 petrol 5 door Zetec as a company car. Is there any way I can find out the original 2009 purchase price?
My Ford focus Zetec 1.6 TDCI 110 (DPF) (2008, 58 plate, 47500 miles) company car is at the end of its lease. It has been faultless so far and I can buy it for £6900. However, I have read about turbo...
Many years ago I swapped my company car for a £500 per month taxable company contribution. Now my company is trying to persuade all "cash takers" to rejoin, saying that terms now make it cheaper than buying...
Should I buy my company car? I am changing jobs and will have have to return my leased A3 sportback diesel (170) SE back to the compancy and pay an early termination charge of around £2k or I can buy it...
I do about 25,000 miles a year and I need to replace my 250,000 miles V70, which will be very, very sad. I could go for a company car (a manual Insignia) but I don't really want to be in a car scheme....
I currently have a company lease VW Tiguan (which I'm happy with) and was going to exchange for another in March next year. I do 15K miles per year (22 mile each way commute) and am thinking about the...
I'm being offered a company car for the first time or the option of a car allowance, but only so long as the car is under 5 years old. I am leaning towards the car allowance option, but I would like advice...